Tom Facchine – Do THIS and Unlock Ihsan

			So O'Raghu Aswhani told us, we want to
		

			reform ourselves, if we want to purify ourselves
		

			to get to the level of Khalifa or
		

			Khidafa, Then we have to,
		

			subject ourselves to education so that we develop
		

			wisdom. We have to subject ourselves and train
		

			ourselves upon restraint so that we develop the
		

			capacity for generosity. We have to subject ourselves
		

			and train ourselves with patience so that we
		

			develop the capacity for courage, bravery, contentment, and
		

			forbearance.
		

			And then finally, we have to habituate ourselves
		

			to justice so that we develop ihsan.
		

			And what the author means by this is
		

			that when you move through life,
		

			kind of with a lens where you are
		

			focusing on the just, on being fair, on
		

			giving everyone their rights, then this is a
		

			transferable skill that is going to enable you
		

			to have ihsan towards all of creation. Okay.
		

			And this is why the prophet
		

			said that all of the creation
		

			makes istirfar.
		

			Right? It asks Allah to forgive the Adam.
		

			And he said, even the fish in the
		

			sea. Right? Because if you are concerned about
		

			justice, then you are going to care about
		

			what happens to those fish. Right? You're going
		

			to care if somebody's dumping chemicals in the
		

			lake. You're gonna care if somebody
		

			is, you know there's microplastics
		

			that are getting into their lungs and everything
		

			like this. You're going to care about,
		

			you know, the rivers and the oceans and
		

			the forest. And you're gonna care about your
		

			family and your neighbors and your Muslims. Right?
		

			It's basically putting on your radar your duty
		

			to all of these different parts of creation.
		

			Whereas before, the life of the life of,
		

			of heedlessness, you're only thinking about yourself. You're
		

			only thinking about your your your
		

			desire. What do I want? What do I
		

			wanna do today? How How am I gonna
		

			spend my time, my free time? Right? How
		

			am I gonna make myself happy? Somebody who
		

			has an eye for justice,
		

			they're going to start looking around for other
		

			people and what they need, whether it's your
		

			spouse, whether it's your children, whether it's your
		

			extended relatives, your parents.
		

			And once you've done that enough and once
		

			you've trained yourself enough,
		

			that sort of unlocks the capacity
		

			to have Ihsan towards them, to have excellence
		

			towards them. Because you've lost yourself in the
		

			process, lost yourself in a certain sense of
		

			the word. Like, you've actually found your true
		

			self, which is this khalifa, which is the
		

			servant, this, you know, almost managerial role. But
		

			you've lost yourself in the sense that you're
		

			no longer just making all of your decisions
		

			based off of what's good for you. You
		

			are very, very sensitive to what's best for
		

			everybody and you're going to strive to,
		

			have excellence towards everybody else.